And maybe my American bias is showing, but Anglicanism's separation from this authority merely a symptom of its monarchy rebelling against R
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The central authority is already there: the word of God itself, from which no one may derogate and live.
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Actually, it was the
#papacy, by its very existence as a false institution opposed to the#gospel, that was in rebellion against God.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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Apostolic authority, however, is in every bishop, and it was the revisionism of Rome that said otherwise.
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In matters temporal, however, the most exalted and saintly bishop is subject to the imperium of the emperor or king.
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In matters spiritual, apostolic authority is in the word of God, and all the actually spiritual authority of a bishop is derivative from it.
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But in terms of hierarchy would it not make sense to grant supremacy to one holy office seen as successor to peter lest sectarianism infect?
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This alleged supremacy of
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Especially since my main concern of the consecration of the host is preserved even in orthodoxy
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